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Quotes About Lives

I support the Second Amendment just like everybody else. It's not about taking guns away. It's about doing very simple things that will save lives.
~ Tony Evers
Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.
~ Kate Middleton
The clash is epic and internal, between the ego and the Self, and the stakes are our lives.
~ Steven Pressfield
On that question Henry kept his opinion to himself. It was all speculation anyway. People were going to do what they were going to do. After a certain age he'd ceased to believe he might influence their lives.
~ Stewart O'Nan
REMEMBER THE IMPOSSIBLE eventfulness of time, transformation and emotion packed like gunpowder into the barrel. Remember the dilation and diffusion, the years within days. Theirs were endless; lives flowered and died between waking and noon.
~ Susan Choi
Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.
~ Susan Howatch
Some lives are exemplary, others not; and of exemplary lives, there are those which invite us to imitate them, and those which we regard from a distance with a mixture of revulsion, pity, and reverence.
~ Susan Sonntag
Some lives are exemplary, others not; and of exemplary lives, there are those which invite us to imitate them, and those which we regard from a distance with a mixture of revulsion, pity, and reverence. It is, roughly, the difference between the hero and the saint (if one may use the latter term in an aesthetic, rather than a religious sense).
~ Susan Sontag
You don't know what narrow lives girls have, how few real adventures there are for them; misadventures, yes, like abortions and little men following them in subways, but seldom anything like seeing ships at night.
~ Joyce Johnson
the quality of the conversation drives the nature of the impact. At the moment of contact, conversations have the power to transform our lives.
~ Judith E. Glaser
We are women. And the men who hold our fates hardly conceive that we have desires and dreams of our own. If we are ever to live the lives we want, we have to make them conceive it. Our bravery, the force of our will, shall be their proof.
~ Julia Quinn
Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.
~ Rick Perry
Human experience is infinite. Lives are infinite. Stories are infinite. Just because one story has gravity in it doesn't mean you can't write a different one with gravity in it.
~ Nathan Englander
Being attentive to the things that add meaning to our lives alongside politics will help us inform our politics with the values that really do make America great.
~ Pete Buttigieg
It comforts the adult conscience to remember that, amid history's grave injustices, there were still great lives.
~ Rumaan Alam
An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.
~ Arkady Volozh
One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. The breeze lifting a blue curtain in a doorway billows just the same whether you are lucky enough to observe it or not. Travel gives such jolts. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?
~ Frances Mayes
All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.
~ Billy Graham
The lives of many reflect the practices and standards of this present world . . . they are more interested in imitating the world system dominated by Satan than in imitating Christ.
~ Billy Graham
We glorify God by living lives that honor Him.
~ Billy Graham
One of the real tests of Christian character is to be found in the lives we live from day to day.
~ Billy Graham
If we feed our spiritual lives and allow the Holy Spirit to empower us, He will have rule over us. If we starve our spiritual natures and instead feed the old, sinful nature, the flesh will dominate.
~ Billy Graham
The truth is that others judge us. More than that, they evaluate the truth of the Gospel by what they see of our lives and our integrity. [We] must make every effort to be above all suspicion in the matter of finances and statistics. We are not only accountable to God's people, but also to our Master (see Acts 24:16).
~ Billy Graham